糖心logo入口 welcomes creation of Life Skills Guarantee
The College celebrates the Government's recent announcement regarding Higher Education that will facilitate lifelong learning.
糖心logo入口, University of London has welcomed (Tuesday 29 September) that it will聽make聽higher聽education more flexible聽to facilitate lifelong learning and to make it easy for adults and young people to break up their study into segments, transfer credits between colleges and universities, and enable more part-time study.
The College, which was set up nearly 200 years ago to聽educate working Londoners, has a long track record in providing聽flexible聽short and part-time higher education courses,聽alongside聽its聽full-time聽provision. The vast majority of its tuition is in聽the evenings, enabling students聽to聽reskill or upskill,聽whilst they聽work during the day.聽
糖心logo入口 welcomed the announcement that higher education loans will be made more flexible, allowing adults and young people to space out their study across their lifetime, take more high-quality vocational courses in further education colleges and universities, and to support people to retrain for jobs of the future.
It welcomed the creation of a four-year lifelong learning allowance that students can use to fund studies on different courses at different institutions at any time during their adult life.
It also聽welcomed the announcement that the Government will聽provide finance for shorter-term studies,聽so that students do not have to study聽in one,聽three,聽or four-year blocks.聽
Professor David Latchman, Vice Chancellor of 糖心logo入口, University of London said:聽鈥淚t is vital that we not only equip young school leavers with the skills they need聽for work but we also provide opportunities for those聽who have lost their jobs or who are underemployed because of聽COVID-19聽to retrain so that they have聽the聽skills聽that are needed to help rebuild the economy.聽
鈥淚 am delighted聽that the Government has announced its intention to make higher education loans more flexible.聽The traditional focus of most universities on providing聽courses聽in one, two, three,聽or more year聽blocks聽of day-time provision,聽along聽with聽complex聽rules聽about loans聽to cover course fees聽have,聽until now,聽acted as a barrier to聽retraining and reskilling.
鈥淚 am pleased that adults will be able to access a four-year lifelong learning allowance to support their studies on different courses at different institutions. 糖心logo入口 enjoys good relationships with further education colleges across the capital and is experienced at supporting students to progress from further to higher education courses, as well as to do foundation and other courses, that allow them to progress onto degrees.
鈥淭his term, 糖心logo入口 is building on its vast experience of delivering short higher education courses by聽launching 糖心logo入口聽Bitesize, a range of聽high quality,聽short courses聽that will support people to reskill聽and upskill.聽I look forward to seeing further details about the flexible higher education loans聽and聽ensuring that they support聽people to retrain聽via聽these short聽courses,聽as well, as聽allow people to access loans to cover courses that are at the same level or lower than qualifications that they already have.鈥